Surveying a subset and generalizing the population from which it's drawn is what we call inferential statistics; it's a cornerstone of modern science and social research. From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot] Reference
This group of techniques is commonly known as inferential statistics. From Wordnik.com. [Hypothesis testing] Reference
The Sûtras proceed to dispose of the so-called inferential marks. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
That is simple race-baiting by inference, what Stuart hall, the great intellectual, calls inferential racism. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2008] Reference
Causes of the latter sort may be called inferential or hypothetical causes to distinguish them from those which are perceived. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
And I would always be very wary of acting on the kind of inferential intelligence that the United States tends to collect. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2004] Reference
I recollect a singular instance of this sensitiveness displayed by Sambo, in which he also manifested a kind of inferential power wonderfully akin to reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
It would only explain the existence of those penumbral connections if it was part of the meaning of names and demonstratives that they fill some kind of inferential role. From Wordnik.com. [The Problem of the Many] Reference
But this kind of inferential evidence would not be sufficient to go ahead and inform someone else, unless there was a really compelling reason to think that damage would result. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The outlines are certain, the details are inferential. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
Buddhism calls it "inferential cognition" (rjes-dpag). From Wordnik.com. [The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session One: Clearing Away Extraneous Conceptions about Karma] Reference
This is valid inferential cognition (rjes-dpag tshad-ma). From Wordnik.com. [Cognition of the Two Truths in the Gelug Sautrantika, Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika Systems] Reference
"Circumstantial evidence Or shall we say inferential evidence?". From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
Any objective knowledge of consciousness is at best inferential. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Interview with Alva Noe, Ph.D.] Reference
This we prove with valid inferential cognition, relying on the force of logic. From Wordnik.com. [Theravada Practice of the Four Close Placements of Mindfulness] Reference
Oprah Winfrey endorsed the memoir for her inferential book club and sales went through the book. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2006] Reference
And if you talk to people about it, they say, Oh, we had massive amounts of inferential evidence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2003] Reference
Thus far, the knowledge gained as to the unconscious element in Lucie was not direct, but inferential. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
Either metaphysical or objective entities may be implicitly apprehended by valid inferential cognition. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations in Alternating Order] Reference
When we have an inferential cognition of something through a line of reasoning, we cognize it conceptually. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Meditation on Voidness (Emptiness) ��� Session Four: Misconceptions Based on Belief in a False "Me"] Reference
Valid inferential cognition cognizes its involved objects by directly relying on a line of reasoning (rtags). From Wordnik.com. [The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations] Reference
Thus, it is either a nonconceptual or a conceptual straightforward cognition and not an inferential cognition. From Wordnik.com. [The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations] Reference
Hauptmann did not belong, however, to the transcendental school that creates purely inferential languages -- East. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
When we generate labored bodhichitta in a meditation session, its first moment is cognized with inferential cognition. From Wordnik.com. [The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations] Reference
Then, we focus on that inferential understanding and concentrate on discerning ourselves as having a precious human life. From Wordnik.com. [Discerning and Stabilizing Meditations (Analytical and Formal Meditations)] Reference
The first phase of a discerning meditation may involve inferential cognition with verbal thinking (which is always conceptual). From Wordnik.com. [The Relation between Shamatha, Vipashyana, and Discerning and Stabilizing Meditations] Reference
So we get an inferential understanding and we derive it through simple inference, rather than through a process of heavy logic. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing Buddhism Down to Earth ��� Session One: Letting Down the Walls] Reference
Voidness may be cognized either with inferential cognition or with either conceptual or nonconceptual straightforward cognition. From Wordnik.com. [The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations] Reference
Thus, we shall omit from our description the presentation of inferential cognition in which a line of reasoning is validly cognized. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Non-Gelug Presentation] Reference
A state of vipashyana, however, whether or not directly induced by an inferential process, is straightforward cognition of its object. From Wordnik.com. [The Relation between Shamatha, Vipashyana, and Discerning and Stabilizing Meditations] Reference
An inferential cognition (rjes-dpag) is of static metaphysical entities (spyi-mtshan) and arises by relying on a valid line of reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on A Root Text for Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra] Reference
The wisdom that understands emptiness through inferential cognition is gained without employing shamatha (calm abiding, single-pointed) meditation at the. From Wordnik.com. [Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary] Reference
At first, our scrutiny must start by depending directly on a line of reasoning, and our conceptual cognition of voidness begins as an inferential cognition. From Wordnik.com. [Cognition of the Two Truths in the Gelug Sautrantika, Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika Systems] Reference
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